Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship Program » Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine » College of Medicine

The UF Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine is proud to offer a one-year fellowship opportunity in Interventional Pulmonology (IP). This fellowship is intended to provide an additional year of training in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of airway and pleural disorders for those who have completed a Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship.

Karthik Vijayan
Program Director, Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship
karthik.vijayan@medicine.ufl.edu

Fellowship Program Overview

The Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship at the University of Florida is a one-year, ACGME-accredited subspecialty program focused on advanced clinical and procedural training in complex airway disease, lung cancer diagnosis and staging, pleural disorders, and advanced COPD interventions. The program aims to develop clinical investigators with expertise in interventional pulmonology, aligned with ACGME and American Association of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology requirements.

The fellowship accepts one fellow per year, allowing for individualized training and progressive procedural autonomy. Applicants must have completed three years of Internal Medicine residency and three years of ACGME-accredited Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship training. Selection occurs through the NRMP Interventional Pulmonology Match.

Training is based at UF Health/Shands Hospital, a tertiary academic medical center and NCI-designated cancer center, and includes comprehensive exposure to advanced bronchoscopic and pleural procedures, multidisciplinary thoracic oncology care, peri-procedural management, research, and quality improvement.

Graduates are prepared for independent practice in academic or advanced community interventional pulmonology settings.

Facilities

UF Health Shands Hospital is a 1,200-bed academic teaching hospital and the major tertiary referral center for North Central Florida. Located on the University of Florida campus, our Interventional Pulmonology program provides comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients with complex airway, pleural, and thoracic oncology conditions.

Our Lung Diagnostic Center is a hospital outpatient department located on the 2nd floor of the North Tower at UF Health Shands Hospital. The center includes two dedicated bronchoscopy procedure rooms and offers services Monday through Friday

Each procedure room is staffed by a registered nurse and a registered respiratory therapist. The nurse provides patient assessment, monitoring, and peri-procedural care, while the respiratory therapist assists the physician during procedures. Anesthesia support is available in the operating room and on selected days in the bronchoscopy suite. Additionally, IP teams have access to OR for selected cases.

In addition to outpatient procedural services, our interventional pulmonology team provides inpatient consultation and procedural care throughout UF Health Shands Hospital, including the intensive care units, inpatient wards, and specialty clinics. This integrated model allows us to care for patients across the full spectrum of illness, from outpatient evaluation to critically ill hospitalized patients requiring advanced airway or pleural interventions.